People seem to think that I'm not aware of how people perceive me. But I'm the one that has to talk about 'Police Academy' all day long 27 years later. I'm totally aware of it.

Be it in the movies I make or on stage, I think it's a trap to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

I don't really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I really don't think I'm very good at it, and I'm not really interested in it anymore as an adult.

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.

My daughter and my wife inspire me to make movies.

I would love to make a horror picture!

I'm not really trying to reach a big mass of an audience. My movies are done for a tiny, tiny budget, and that affords me to make them more personal.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

When I get to make a movie, I really try to make it on my own terms.

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

I've probably done myself a disservice as a brand because the movies I've made. They've all been completely different.

Certainly, shows like 'Black Mirror' helped me. I should send them a fruit basket.

I've been making fun of administrations since I was a teenager onstage.

People go, 'Oh, Trump must be good for comedy,' and I go, 'Ehhh.'

If I was a young man, I might have bypassed the whole comedian-actor thing and just been a filmmaker. Then I'd probably have spent my whole life going, 'I wonder if I could have been a comedian.'

To make the films I want, I just have to live within my means and scale down my lifestyle - and be with somebody who's cool with that.

Which is worse - being a has-been or being the guy interviewing a has-been?

Every week, there's a different equivalent of Charlie Sheen having a breakdown. I knew about Kim Kardashian getting married - and then getting divorced - and there's no reason I should. I don't have hostility toward Kim Kardashian - just toward the people who take that stuff seriously.

I don't get too hung up on what people think of me.

In the past, the movies I've made are perceived as dark, but a lot of comedies are way darker.

The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.

When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.

I had fame and wealth and things that are supposed to make you happy, but I wasn't happy, because there's no importance on having a fulfilling life. So in my mid-40s, that was my pursuit - making films that interested me, films that I would like to go see.

All I do is I have this insulated life with my wife and my daughter and a couple of friends who I try to see, but it doesn't even happen.

Being shocking and cruel is a commerce. It's an actual valued skill now. The thing that really annoys me, the perception of it is that it takes intelligence, and it doesn't.

If you raise a cool adult, that's an achievement.

My wife and daughter both bust me on how much I am the guy yelling at kids to get off my lawn.

The environment on the sets of the movies I make, it's usually all friends and people that know each other, because no one's getting rich or making money, so it's always about, hopefully, that everyone's on the same page.

I've been known to high-five, and I have a soft spot for Green Day.

I'd still like to work with Woody Allen.

If I ever got to do television, I would be interested in doing different kinds of characters and stories, and television doesn't lend itself to that.

I had a standup act, and I ended up turning it into something that was really watered down and accessible. Something that went from scary and threatening to something that was almost to the point of being corny.

I really like and admire Michael Moore.

Even when I was a kid - I was really young - I was drawn to comedy.

I'm always wondering, if Bigfoot's not real, then why does this creature show up in all these different cultures? I'm always fascinated by that kind of stuff.

Sometimes the wheels just fall off a relationship.

I think, like, in real life, I'm actually quiet, and I mumble a lot. But that's not very lucrative.

I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.

The first time I was on Letterman, I was, like, 20 years old, and I was on a show called 'Camping with Barry White Night.'

Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.

Occasionally I'll have a slip, and I might watch 'RuPaul's Drag Race' or something. But for the most part, I am out on the reality shows.

When Will.I.Am punched Perez Hilton, I immediately purchased a bunch of their music.

Trust me: I entertain Joe Six-Pack 30 weekends a year. I don't really think that I'm an elitist.

I just write the stuff that comes out of me, and then after that, I try to get it made. But I don't think, 'Will I get the money?' and 'Who's this made for?'

Marketing movies is hard.

I try not to stick to any one thing, you know. That's always been important to me.

As long as there's a strong theme that I can identify with, that's what makes me interested in writing.

I was actually offered a talk show on CBS at one point, and I just didn't want to do it.

Every time I go to a march or a rally, and I post it on Instagram, people will go, 'I'm going to unfollow you!' And I'm like, 'I used to play arenas. I've lost a lot of fans. I'm fine with that. I've had people unfollowing me for years. You're way behind the times.'

If Jimmy Kimmel didn't hire me, I wouldn't have the kind of career I have. And I don't know what kind of career I have, but he changed my life.